Kayleigh V

As ever, completely blown away by how Dr Teresa Cremin inspires. Her reading of The Beautiful Voice reminds us of the importance of being a championing teacher who nurtures and motivates all ideas from all of our young writers. "Children's identities matter." 👏 #writingmatters

There’s no better way to spend a 'KIT' day, during maternity leave, than watching my amazing colleagues, alongside a host of inspiring speakers, deliver the National Primary English Conference. The day is kicking off with an insightful session from Dr Tim Mills! #writingmatters

☀️ Happy Summer Holidays! From all of us on the Primary English Team 💛 This summer, we’re bringing you weekly reading challenges to keep your children: ✅ Motivated ✅ Engaged ✅ Reading for pleasure! 📖 Stay tuned!

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🚨New blog!🚨 We’re delighted that the pilot round of the Year 1 Reading Fluency Project showed great promise in developing early readers. Read about our findings here in our latest blog from @Kaykaymv_: hfleducation.org/blog/strong-fo…

ESSENTIALWRITING for Early Years is due to be released in September! 🚀 This curriculum is specifically designed to nurture 3-4-year-old and 4-5-year-old writers. Join our free information webinar on 6th May to find out more!✍️🧠 hub.hfleducation.org/shop/early-yea…

🚨New blog! 🚨 Year 6 teachers, dip into this brilliant new blog from our adviser, Ben, who offers advice on how to support pupils' writing at this point in the year: hfleducation.org/blog/five-top-… What writing projects have you got coming up this term?

Happy World Book Day from the Primary English team! 📚 Celebrating a love of reading today and every day. #WorldBookDay #English

My article for @HeadteacherNews explores the three strands which we use to define reading fluency, and I share some top tips to address dysfluency in pupils. headteacher-update.com/content/best-p… @HertsEnglish @TimRasinski1 @mrspennyslater

'Teaching the three elements of reading fluency' Don't miss this informative and insightful article from our fabulous Reading Fluency Lead, @kathyeroe. It's a valuable read full of subject knowledge and top-tips too! 📚

‘The notion of play is really important’ - emphasising the need for joyful creativity - what a privilege to listen to legend @davidjalmond talking about how to make the writing process less intimidating whilst sharing his own notebooks ✍️👏👏 #powerfulpedagogy @HertsEnglish

Wow our very own @NickyEvans86 delivered a CPD-packed session taking us through our spelling curriculum and provided masses of takeaways for the classroom 🙌🏻 @HertsEnglish

“Writing is us. We are ordinary yet we are extraordinary.” This keynote from ⁦@davidjalmond⁩ will stay with me 💕🪽 ⁦@HertsEnglish⁩

What a brilliant and inspiring conference it’s been so far… #powerfulpedagogy from @HertsEnglish 👏👏 Joyful poetry from @PoetryVal What the research says about writing from @WritingRocks_17 and rethinking reading teaching & assessment from Dr Wayne Tennent… WOW!! ✨🙌

I’ve been looking forward to this session from the inspirational @tracyswinburne1. We’re hearing about building a reading culture of success for all. 📚 #PowerfulPedagogy

So enjoying this opening keynote with Valerie Bloom. Where else would you start a cold Thursday morning performing poetry as mice..?! #PowerfulPedagogy

What a joy it was to be Valerie's student and a wonderful way to kick off our conference!! Thank you Valerie Bloom!

@_MissieBee We’ve started using HfL Essential Writing this year & love it! Big focus on audience & purpose, written & spoken models, progresses really well and children have engaged brilliantly with it. The lesson plans are detailed but with enough scope to adapt to your class needs ☺️

Teaching reading at KS1 requires a balanced approach, and a rich and varied reading diet. ➡️hfleducation.org/blog/fostering…

Don’t miss the incredible, inimitable Valerie Bloom at our Primary English Conference on 6th February. 🌟 Just two weeks to go but it’s not too late to book your ticket! 🎟️ hfl.mobi/Primary-Englis… @PoetryVal @SpeakingofBks